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The Energy Africa Compact signed by the U.K.’s Department for International Development with the Ugandan government aims to improve access to, and innovation in, solar energy in the country. The U.K.’s Department for International Development (DFID) in Uganda has signed an Energy Africa Compact agreement with Ugandan officials that will work towards improving access to solar energy to the estimated 30 million people in the country without access to electricity. According to the DFID, four out of every five Ugandans…

The climate-friendly electricity generated by solar panels in the past 40 years has all but cancelled out the polluting energy used to produce them, a study said Tuesday. Indeed, by some calculations, the so-called “break-even point” between dirty energy input and clean output may already have arrived, researchers in the Netherlands reported. “We show strong downward trends of environmental impact” of solar panel production, the team wrote in the journal Nature Communications. The study sought to address concerns that solar…

Last year, Google consumed as much energy as the city of San Francisco. Next year, it said, all of that energy will come from wind farms and solar panels. The online giant said on Tuesday that all of its data centers around the world will be entirely powered with renewable energy sources sometime next year. This is not to say that Google computers will consume nothing but wind and solar power. Like almost any company, Google gets power from a…

Images have been released showing the sheer size of a new solar power plant in southern India. The facility in Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu, has a capacity of 648 MW and covers an area of 10 sq km. This makes it the largest solar power plant at a single location, taking the title from the Topaz Solar Farm in California, which has a capacity of 550 MW. The solar plant, built in an impressive eight months and funded by the Adani…

At COP22, 48 countries committed to “strive to meet 100% domestic renewable energy production as rapidly as possible while working to end energy poverty, protect water and food security, taking into consideration national circumstances”. They are among the most vulnerable countries and are united as the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF). With their declaration, these countries prove unique leadership in Marrakesh, keeping up to the promise to make the first COP after the Paris Agreement entering into force, an “Action COP”….

Now that Tesla has officially acquired SolarCity, it’s not wasting any time showing what the combined entity can do. Tesla has revealed that it’s running the island of Ta’u (in American Samoa) on a solar energy microgrid that, at 1.4 megawatts, can cover “nearly 100 percent” of electrical needs. It’s not just the 5,328 solar panels that are key — it’s the 60 Tesla Powerpacks that offer 6 megawatt-hours of energy storage. While Ta’u is normally very sunny, the packs…

The reports have it that Turkey is looking for becoming a manufacturing hub for the renewable-energy industry by implementing some of the world’s strictest rules on local content. Turkey, the nation which is astride the European and Asian continents, is now on its way to open itself for the overseas investors in a tender for utility-scale renewable energy contracts. The tender-winners would be required to construct photovoltaic panels within the country. Talking on the phone, a senior banker at the…

A lot is being quoted, and misquoted in the media on how best to overcome the ‘existing’ energy crisis in our country. As most of the debate is, at best, misinformed, it will be helpful to analyse what is the best source of electricity and more importantly how kosher solar is. Solar power — which was once the darling of media folks and ‘aam awaam’ for its supposed ”free power” nature — is subject to much ridicule these days ever…

No denying in saying that solar energy is the need of the hour due to the mammoth energy crisis in Pakistan. It has to be promoted in an apt manner to overcome the prevailing crisis of energy in Pakistan. Once the promotion of solar-based energy and technologies is done, it will not only help Pakistan overcome the energy crisis, but also enhance the agriculture sector by narrowing post-harvest losses going-on in the country. Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Vice Chancellor…

The fact remains that you cannot think living without energy, since it is everything for you. Well, it comes in many forms such as heat, light, electricity and mechanical energy respectively. You are much aware of the fact that the conventional energy sources happen to be the main contributors to the global warming. Moreover, these fossil fuels are not renewable meaning that they will not last long and fade away. There is good news in terms of alternative sources of…